In love...old-school word processor.
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Seriously, I wanted to find a minimalistic, online word processor with a dark background and very few distractions. I found a really wicked one. I'll give the link to anyone interested. Not everyone will be interested, of course, but picture this.Black background, like a DOS terminal or an old computer terminal typing station using WordPerfect or something. Started with green text, now on amber/orange text (total adjustability, just pick an HTML color). Simple monotype serif font. Typewriter clicking sounds. Good ones, and obviously an option, I'm just a supergeek who misses clicking keys while typing and is constantly fantasizing about the allure of manual typewriters while simultaneously being too lazy for that to be practical. Screen-filling, distraction-less, toolbar-less terminal. No bright white screen screaming in your face. It's bloody hypnotic, I'm tellin' ya. You can use a cookie, make a log-in, or use an open log-in (like google, etc.), save, export, everything. I've gotta shut myself up before I embarrass myself. Ask if you want a link. What a good way to zone in on writing. Normally, my computer's desktop is like a giant labyrinth of wonderful distractions and demons that I must traverse to the center of, the only place I will find any productivity. It's far too easy to get lost. This might help.
by illuminatrix in Six-Word Memoirs on Jan 18, 2013 | 
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lillybrook says,
I think a lot of people could benefit from this. Multitasking is an illusion; the brain switches from one thing to the next and cannot focus on more than one thing. We fool ourselves if we think we're getting the whole experience when we jump around. This sounds AWESOME! Enjoy.illuminatrix says,
You're right, lillybrook. I watched an amazing lecture series by a neurologist called Optimizing Brain Fitness a while ago and he stated that multitasking is an illusion. We perform sequential neurological functions, one after another after another. Of course we can switch back and forth more and more rapidly, but for each new task we add on, there is a loss of quality or efficiency in the others across the board. He did mention that some tiny percentage of people have an actual ability to simultaneously multitask, but we're talking single digit percents or smaller, if I remember correctly. It's an aberration, not the norm. If you want your best stuff, limit the things you're working on at any one given moment.Since this is on the featured sixes page, I should drop the link. You'll find this at writer.bighugelabs.com. Just so you know, too, I did peruse the privacy policy, etc. and what you put on there is private and still your property. It's not a blog. I like redundant backups when it comes to irreplaceable data though, so I copy and paste everything important into a word file as well, but there's a free chunk of data you're allowed to save, one you won't easily fill, if you catch my drift.
So far, I've done zone-in writing on this site, and sometimes I'll revise off a normal word processor file. Multiple backgrounds and option arrays equal different environment equals helpful towards the fresh perspective needed for revision.